Single-player games like Life Eater
Below are 17 single-player Steam games similar to Life Eater, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Home Safety Hotline
Single-player alternative to Life Eater — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Life Eater.
Hearing noises? Seeing things? Call Home Safety Hotline! Our operators are standing by, waiting to give you the answers you need to protect your home from all manner of pests and household hazards.
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Static Dread: The Lighthouse
Single-player alternative to Life Eater — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Life Eater.
Lovecraft meets Papers, Please. Play as a lighthouse keeper and guide ships safely into the harbor using your radio. Survive the presence of something impossible, and don’t let the shadows consume you!
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Cultist Simulator
Single-player alternative to Life Eater — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Life Eater.
Seize forbidden treasures. Summon alien gods. Feed on your disciples. Cultist Simulator is a game of apocalypse and yearning. Play as a seeker after unholy mysteries, in a 1920s-themed setting of hidden gods and secret histories.
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>observer_
Single-player alternative to Life Eater — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Life Eater.
The original first‑person cyberpunk horror detective tale set in a decaying, neon‑scarred future. As an Observer who invades minds to hunt for clues, you will sift through corrupted memories to track down a mysterious killer and confront your own dark past.
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FLATHEAD
Single-player alternative to Life Eater — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Life Eater.
Over or Under? A simple game of gambling with your life.
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Darkwood
Single-player alternative to Life Eater — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and RPG with Life Eater.
Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.
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OFF
Single-player alternative to Life Eater — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares RPG with Life Eater.
“I’m the Batter. I’ve been entrusted with a sacred mission.” -- One of the most influential RPGs of the last 20 years is finally coming to Steam. Take control of the Batter as he seeks to purify an uncanny and hopeless world haunted by specters, guided by a cryptic, grinning cat called The Judge.
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The Infectious Madness of Doctor Dekker
Single-player alternative to Life Eater — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie and Simulation with Life Eater.
YOU are a psychiatrist, trying to solve a murder whilst treating the unusual patients of the recently deceased Doctor Dekker. Type a question - patients reply in full screen video and have questions for you too but be careful what you say. Your words determine their eventual fates, and your own!
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The Music at the end of the World
Single-player alternative to Life Eater — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Life Eater.
The cold that destroyed the world is nothing new. There is nothing left to save, and no hero left to save it. The Music at the End of the World is nothing more than the ramblings of a madman... and a little of what remains of the world.
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I Am Your Beast
Single-player alternative to Life Eater — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Hunt the military-industrial complex across stylish comic book micro-sandboxes in this fast-paced covert revenge thriller FPS from the developers of El Paso, Elsewhere.
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CLICKOLDING
Single-player alternative to Life Eater — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Life Eater.
The man in the corner of your hotel room wants you to click something. He wants to watch you click it.
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El Paso, Elsewhere
Single-player alternative to Life Eater — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
STAKES. GUNS. SLOW-MO. Fight werewolves and vampires in a reality-shifting motel. Dive through barricades to escape the grasp of evil puppets. Destroy the villain you loved. A new, third-person love letter to classic shooters. Neo-noir never looked so good.
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Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator
Single-player alternative to Life Eater — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Life Eater.
Buy, sell, and trade organs in a strange and evolving universe. Dive into the quivering innards of alien capitalism in the sci-fi body horror market tycoon game you didn't know you needed.
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Dread X Collection
Single-player alternative to Life Eater — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Life Eater.
10 Tales of Terror from 10 Twisted Minds. Made in only 7 Sleepless Nights. The Dread X Collection is a series of small games created by some of the most talented indie devs around, all with the same mission: create the P.T. for the horror project of their dreams.
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Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator
Single-player alternative to Life Eater — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Simulation with Life Eater.
Buy low, sell high, and short an entire universe of babies in this arcade stock market sim set in the world of Space Warlord Organ Trading Simulator.
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Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 3
Single-player alternative to Life Eater — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Strategy and Indie with Life Eater.
MATCH DNA BUBBLES IN AN UNDERGROUND LAB TO KEEP YOUR PSYCHIC CLONE FROM INVADING YOUR MIND AND TURNING YOU INTO A CANNIBAL. This is the match-3 survival horror comedy RPG metroidvania you didn't know you needed.
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An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs
Single-player alternative to Life Eater — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Life Eater.
An Airport for Aliens Currently Run by Dogs is an open-world comedy adventure game. Talk to stock photo dogs. Solve their problems. Catch your flight. And call it Dog Airport Game when you get tired of saying the full title, like I did three months ago.